Go Wide on Sources.
The 8D path for connecting your data, built live with Tyler in the 8D room. Where the 4D room wires one source, you go wide: multiple sources (email, calendar, Slack, iMessage), Exa and Firecrawl for research, a sub-agent per source, and a memory-recall step. The result is a brief that reflects your whole world, not just your inbox. Going past built-in connectors to your own command-line tools? The Build Your First CLI library card is the pattern.
- Many sources at once email, calendar, Slack, iMessage, wired together so nothing important is invisible to your brief.
- A sub-agent per source each source handled by its own agent, the fleet pattern from S1 put to work.
- A memory-recall step your brief pulls from your Cairn, so it remembers what you have been working on.
Build it with Claude.
The 8D build-along. Claude reads the repo, then helps you connect several sources with a sub-agent for each, pausing between steps for your confirmation.
Your 8D checkpoint.
This is the deeper build for S2, done live with Tyler, in its own room. The 4D room connects one source. You connect many, and put the fleet from S1 to work on them.
Multiple sources, a sub-agent per source, and a memory-recall step feeding your brief.
Your brief draws on several sources plus a recall step from your Cairn, not just one inbox.
Live with Tyler in the 8D room. A brief that reflects your whole world.
The wide source setup is assembled with Tyler during the session. For Exa, stay on the official path: use the Claude Desktop Exa connector for the easy route, or run /upgrade-8d-secrets first and use the official Exa CLI with EXA_API_KEY stored in Infisical for the advanced route. Do not use Smithery or community Exa MCP installs.
/upgrade-8d-secrets. This deck walks the machine-identity setup end to end.